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27 June 2006 Recent progress at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer
Markus Schöller; Javier Argomedo; Bertrand Bauvir; Leonardo Blanco-Lopez; Henri Bonnet; Stephane Brillant; Michael Cantzler; Johan Carstens; Fabio Caruso; Christian Choque-Cortez; Frederic Derie; Francoise Delplancke; Nicola Di Lieto; Martin Dimmler; Yves Durand; Mark Ferrari; Emmanuel Galliano; Philippe Gitton; Bruno Gilli; Andreas Glindemann; Serge Guniat; Stephane Guisard; Nicolas Haddad; Pierre Haguenauer; Nico Housen; Gerd Hudepohl; Christian Hummel; Andreas Kaufer; Mario Kiekebusch; Bertrand Koehler; Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin; Samuel Leveque; Christopher Lidman; Pedro Mardones; Serge Menardi; Sebastien Morel; Manfred Mornhinweg; Jean-Luc Nicoud; Isabelle Percheron; Monika Petr-Gotzens; Than Phan Duc; Florence Puech; Andres Ramirez; Fredrik Rantakyrö; Andrea Richichi; Thomas Rivinius; Stefan Sandrock; Fabio Somboli; Jason Spyromilio; Stanislav Stefl; Vincent Suc; Roberto Tamai; Mario Tapia; Martin Vannier; Gautam Vasisht; Anders Wallander; Stefan Wehner; Markus Wittkowski; Juan Zagal
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Proceedings Volume 6268, Advances in Stellar Interferometry; 62680L (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.672231
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2006, Orlando, Florida , United States
Abstract
The ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) is the first general-user interferometer that offers near- and mid-infrared long-baseline interferometric observations in service and visitor mode to the whole astronomical community. Over the last two years, the VLTI has moved into its regular science operation mode with the two science instruments, MIDI and AMBER, both on all four 8m Unit Telescopes and the first three 1.8m Auxiliary Telescopes. We are currently devoting up to half of the available time for science, the rest is used for characterization and improvement of the existing system, plus additional installations. Since the first fringes with the VLTI on a star were obtained on March 17, 2001, there have been five years of scientific observations, with the different instruments, different telescopes and baselines. These observations have led so far to more than 40 refereed publications. We describe the current status of the VLTI and give an outlook for its near future.
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